" I do not think you can build this fortress yourself" - Foucault's project was about general cultural situation in 60s., it is not about somebody's i...
Foucault problematized " I speak" as having the two propositions hidden in the statement ( " I speak" and I say that I speak"): " They are in no way c...
" To take your "I speak" as being spoken in a specific language", " To see any utterance in a living language as also carrying commitment to a linguis...
"The meaning of the speech acts can not be analyzed without context".You are right. Yet, what do you mean applying the word " context"? You list of ex...
For Paolo Virno " I speak" is an "absolute performative" which has a function of foregrounding the "event of Language". Another example is Foucault's ...
About Lazzaroto there is a quote above. " I speak" has a special privileged status, different from any other statement; it can support or destroy the ...
Actually, " I speak" is a kind of artificial construct and for better understanding we need to relate this utterance iwith a concrete situation. But h...
"It does not really commit one to anything" - Could you imagine somebody speaking without involving a kind of illocutionary commitment? There is no il...
"How the Zionist movement is controlling the agenda in the UK ( and elsewhere)." Are you serious about this statement? It is an absolute conspirologic...
"The idea of Brexit is related to Brexit as process" You are right. So, there are idea, and a reality as process, but there is also a slogan between t...
" They voted for the return of the British Empire". This is the very important point, that I tried to develop. There is nothing wrong in the slogan :"...
Sorry, I do not have my computer with me now, so I can not bring the exact quote. I meant the famous discussion between Derrida and Foucault about Cog...
Basically, your answer is verifying what I said before. We do not agree just because the word " Brexit" has two possible meanings: 1) Brexit as idea 2...
I do not doubt that you are able perfectly articulate what ( was) and is Brexit about! But what is your government position? It is opened to endless i...
Of course! But what can we say new about Descartes'Cogito after intensive discussions of greatest thinkers of 20- s century! - by the way, most of the...
I think it is impossible to apply the concept of fascism ( understood as existing for long period of time regime like real Hitler's one or imaginary O...
" What cultural resources tend to support fascism?"I think it is the political culture of "fake news" and "whitch hunt". In the last few years, mass m...
"People want their countries back" - what do people want? We can take an example of Brexit - now it is almost impossible to say what is Brexit about! ...
" I generally follow Taine in the French Revolution and the parallel seems clear from that" - Could you explain how Taine can be applied to our situat...
There are so many versions and interpretations why the French Revolution happened. Yet,there is no working explanatory model that can be applied to ou...
It is right. However, It is quiet unprecedented that such politicians could receive 30%-40% of the popular vote. One can ask a question how even a sma...
This is a very important point. Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipus differentiate between two kinds of fascistic desire: "the major enemy, the str...
You are right. Berardi was quite superficial.Yet, there are some factors that he did not brought: the speed of the events plus accumulative effect of ...
There were just few actual cases of fascism in history. Even stalinism was not fascism. So we have just Germany and Italy, may be Spain.Therefore, we ...
What Descartes was about, apparently, was making a better and safer world. If he could just restore God as perfect (again), and use that perfection as...
Exactly - they are riding a wave (this wave actually is true desire!) - and under some circumstances this wave, taking all working factors together in...
Thank you for your points! "But let me put things more brutally in economic terms, avoiding the mess of both politics and psychology. Mass production ...
"Is you doing those acts a consequence of me “being divisive” or just you being a vandal?"Anyway, in the most general view, all active “subjects”- Tra...
The way of Descartes was not safe and comfortable walk through different modi of I. As Derrida pointed out: "The act of Cogito is no longer a question...
As Deleuze and Gvattari wrote, Descartes’s cogito is self-sufficient set of philosophical concepts. "To start with, the preceding analysis must be con...
So if there was an act of thinking, isn't it necessary to assume that there was something engaged in this act, or else it wouldn't be an act at all? W...
Nevertheless,psychoanalisys practices demonstrate grounding procedures for establishing "I"(In the absence of Descartes' style methods) I would bring ...
That said, it is not just any synthetic a priori truth; it is rather the I's self-grounding act, its self-creation. Descartes explains the nature of s...
"It is impossible that a thought could will itself into existence. It must already exist in order to will anything. So willing itself into existence w...
However the association of the "I" with this thought, is not equally affirmed by Descartes, indeed throughout the Meditations Descartes refers to hims...
We can consider the most prominent figures of psychoanalyses: Freud and Lacan. Their theories and practices can provide evidence that Nietzsche was ri...
Neitzsche in aphorism 17 (BG&E) Reiterates Descartes own criticism of himself, with the empirically correct observation that 'a thought comes when it ...
"The cogito comes in different forms. "I think, therefore I am." "This proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by m...
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